Add support for alerting on azure datasource

[dkmla]

I need the possibility of enabling alerts from the azure metrics.

Currently I get the following error:
"The datasource does not support alerting queries"

[daniellee]

At the moment, a data source has to be part of core Grafana to be able to support alerting. Whether this gets merged into core, depends on the plugin's popularity. But for now support for alerting is not possible.

[regevbr]

In order to make this data source popular, alerts will play a big part of it... Currently I monitor my message queues with it but with no alerts it has little use to me...

[sguleff]

Agree with this. I work for a large eCommerce company on Azure. We'd be able to leverage this if only there were alerting available.

[daniellee]

The Grafana team is working on making data source plugins for the backend which means that we will be able to add a backend for this plugin and automatically get alerting. But it is still a month or two away in the future.

[goatmale]

Any update on this? It looks like I can send test alerts, but I get a big ole error that it's not supported.
Thanks.

[LuisLoranca]

@daniellee did you get any update from Grafana team regarding the alerts support for third party plugins?

Thanks!
Luis

[Sojjocola]

Any news?

Thanks
François

[alhardy]

Looking forward to seeing this done. Agree with - "In order to make this data source popular, alerts will play a big part of it."

Grafana is just so much nicer to use for visualisation and easier to build out dashboards, not having alerting and templated dashboards are the primary features stopping me using it full-time with Azure.

[faesel]

Has there been any progress on this?

After being frustrated but the lack of flexibility for alerting on the Azure portal, I discovered this plugin and thought it would be the solution to having an alerting system for custom telemetry events.

[daniellee]

The azure monitor plugin will be added to core Grafana in the coming month or two (or three). See the Grafana roadmap here. Once we have reimplemented some of the query logic in Go (Grafana's backend language) then it will automatically have support for alerting.

[francoisbeaussier]

Hi @daniellee, any update on this? The roadmap link you supplied does not mention the azure monitor plugin, so maybe the grafana team made the backend changes required for alerting to be implemented?

[alhardy]

Hope so, really keen on this too ;)

[dbronk]

@daniellee any update on alerting from Azure? Without alerting, Grafana is little value add for me.

[daniellee]

Currently working on adding support for Log Analytics. This added more dependencies which complicates adding it to core Grafana. Still a candidate for being released in Grafana v5.3 (so nothing has changed in the planning so far).